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How to translate Airtable data

I have text stored in Airtable that I need to translate into another language

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We have two automations that can translate text into another language for you:

Translate Text in Airtable with Google Translate

This automation uses the Google Translate API to translate text between any of the supported languages.

Configuration

  1. You'd need to add a Google Cloud Service Account JSON Key first, as explained here.

  2. Navigate to your dashboard and create the automation in the right Airtable base.

  3. Under Setup, set the Google Cloud Service Account JSON Key you added in step 1.

  4. Then set the Field to Translate and Translated Text Field.

  5. Choose the target language

Supported Languages

  1. English

  2. Spanish

  3. French

  4. German

  5. Italian

  6. Portuguese

  7. Dutch

  8. Swedish

  9. Danish

  10. Finnish

  11. Norwegian

  12. Polish

  13. Russian

  14. Greek

  15. Turkish

  16. Hungarian

  17. Romanian

  18. Czech

  19. Slovak

  20. Bulgarian

  21. Slovenian

  22. Lithuanian

  23. Latvian

  24. Estonian

  25. Croatian

  26. Serbian

  27. Ukrainian

  28. Hebrew

  29. Arabic

  30. Persian

  31. Hindi

  32. Bengali

  33. Punjabi

  34. Gujarati

  35. Tamil

  36. Telugu

  37. Marathi

  38. Kannada

  39. Malayalam

  40. Nepali

  41. Urdu

  42. Indonesian

  43. Malay

  44. Chinese (Simplified)

  45. Chinese (Traditional)

Analyze and Modify Airtable Data using the GPT Model

This automation uses OpenAI's GPT models. It can perform a huge variety of tasks, including translation into most common languages. You would simply provide it with the appropriate prompt and it would perform the action (e.g. "Translate this text to French")

Configuration

  1. You'd need to add an OpenAI API Key first, as explained here.

  2. Navigate to your dashboard and create the automation in the right Airtable base.

  3. Under Setup, set the OpenAI API Key you added in step 1.

  4. Then set the Input Field and Output Field.

  5. Set the Additional Prompt (Optional) to something like "Translate this text to French"

  6. Under GPT Model, choose the model to use

  7. Optional: Define parameters for the model under Advanced

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